Farm Business - General
For 2022, the national average for cash rents on cropland is $148 per acre. That’s up $7 from last year and eclipsed the previous high of 2015’s $144 per acre.
If thinking about negotiating cash rental rates makes you sweat—you’re not alone. Employ these negotiation strategies.
Once you’ve experienced the world at 10 mph you can’t endure slower. There are collateral consequences.
B&B Farm Store defaulted on an estimated $1.3 million of grain they bought from 60 Jesup, Iowa area farmers. But that may not make farmers whole and points to a bigger problem.
With five minutes to go on the farm clock, Max Miller jumped into a river of corn and changed his life’s course, riding the flow to massive entrepreneurial success.
Jamie Lawhorne took a grow-for-the-green scam and turned it into one of the most outlandish swindles in farming history.
Welcome to a festering landowner-hunter conflict and a lawsuit launched by rural property owners against the state. If persistent hunting dog encroachment affects a farming operation, is compensation in order?
FSA appears to now allow an appeals process on the Farm AGI issue. Details on the process are limited at this time.
For 2022, USDA reports the value of the nation’s cropland is $5,050. That’s up $630, or 14%, from 2021. This year’s figure marks back-to-back record highs in cropland values.
If you find yourself ready to bid on a significant number of acres, do your homework, analyze lease types and perfect your landlord communication plan.